Call for Articles
Please submit your article here.
The next issue of the journal will be Vol 25/4 and will come out in October 2021. The theme is "Scientific and Religious Responses to the Pandemic." Some of the suggested and tentative topics are:
Scientific and Religious Responses to the Pandemic
Corona: Salient lessons for our common future
Coronavirus: Scientific challenges
Covid-19 Pandemic: Religious Responses
Sources of Wisdom in Pain and Suffering
Pandemic and Pestilence: Punishment from God?
Virtual and virutalised self (in the digital world): digital flight to face lock-down
Social Distancing and Untouchability
Corona Moment: Reconceptualizing Time
Rediscovering the Phenomenology of Touch
The Weakening of Human Will: Loss of Freedom and Choice
The Challenge to embrace Facticity and reject fatalism (karma)
Ethics of Care: seeking a Christian response to the pandemic
Reaching out with compassion: Accepting health and death
The Gift and the Curse: pushing Innovation during the Pandemic
Crony Capitalism and its effect called the Pandemic
A Philosophical Critique on the exploitation of/by Health Care
The Imperative of Ecosophy and its echo in the pandemic
“To philosophize is to learn to die:” Philosophizing death in the living context of covid-19
Responding to Fear and Anxiety Philosophically and theologically
The Return of Existential Absurdity and the prospect of being simultaneously a vector or victim of the lethal virus
Ideology of safety (and security) masking freedom and democracy
Exploring the Evil within: Exploiting the Corona virus for Personal profit
The attitude of gradually taking things for granted: The ill-effects of learning to live with coronavirus
Persons becoming data: The Emergence of Attention Economy due to Lockdown
The class-divide in Education aggravated by Corona virus
De-tangibilization of the realm of the Divine: Critical reflections on symbols and rituals
The sustaining power of myth (both positive and negative): pondering on the revelatory Hermeneutics of the Myth
Tracing varieties of hope amidst the pandemic
Deontological approach or nishkamakarma: The morality and the death of health workers
Any other topic, with the approval of the Editorial Board
If you show interest in contributing to this volume, please contact the editor (journal [at]jdv.edu.in] as early as possible, with the choice of theme and your brief bionote (150 words). More details will be sent to you later.